Entrepreneur’s advice to others: ‘Do it’

Ryan Speir is a serial entrepreneur and the chief operations officer of Teal Camper and Shelter (www.tealcamper.com). He was born in California, grew up Centennial, Colo. and spent the greater part of his early adult life in Seattle.

Back in 1999, Speir started an IP telephony company in the Seattle area. In 2005, he sold the company and moved back to Colorado. In the years prior to his VoIP company, Speir ran fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. He was a King Crab captain and ran a trawler for nearly 10 years. It was…